Friday Night Pizza!

Ben and I have started a Friday night tradition--homemade pizza! Okay, not completely homemade; we're not tossing our own pizza dough. We use Trader Joe's Ready to Bake Pizza Dough. The simple act of molding the dough into the shape you want makes the mind forget that you didn't make the dough and instills the feeling that you are in fact an expert pizza maker.

We experiment with different toppings; so far my favorite is pepperoni with banana peppers, simple but delicious. Another delicious combo was quattro formaggio, Trader Joe's pesto, and pepperoni.

I look forward to pizza night every week. It sometimes turns into sleepover nights but it also goes well with meeting friends for drinks later.

Goat Milk Mozzarella, roma tomatoes, and prosciutto
(picture from benbeck)

Beer Academy

My friend Lucy (the lovely redhead) wanted to learn more about beer and beer tasting before she moved to Germany for a year. So one Saturday Kern (the lovely brunette) and Lucy came up and Ben hosted a beer tasting class! It was great. He taught us the history of different styles of beer and the different things we were supposed to think about when tasting a beer. We had note cards and everything. Here are some pictures from our night!

Crafty Crafty Time!

I love crafts. This is our latest:



Color your own mugs! (Ben made the one that says Becca. I made the bird one)



Le tweet is the way birds on Pepe Le Pew say I love you.

(That's a puzzle of a Beatle's Album Cover.)

At the ballet

Sometimes you take a long journey only to end up right where you started. Yet, because of the journey, you gain a new perspective on the starting place. I'm sure this poorly worded metaphor could apply to many aspects of my life but the one I have in mind is dancing.

Ballet is what brought me into performance and led me to my career. As I got older I started jazz and tap classes, and in college I picked up modern. When I graduated from college, dance fell to the way side. Classes cost money and I had none. I put my day job and pursuing theatre ahead of dance. My body is now paying for it.

I've recently become invigorated in pursuing dance again. I've been to two ballet classes at Atlanta Ballet and plan to attend weekly. I can't stop thinking about it, and I am more persistent than ever that my graduate studies will have to involve dancing in some aspect.

Today I ordered some new slippers to replace mine that have a giant whole in the toe. The little princess ballerina side of myself had a hard time not adding a tutu to the order too!